Word: zharikov
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Melyantsevs might count themselves lucky compared to the Zharikov family, with nine children ages two to 18, two dogs and a cat to feed. Strapped for cash, the family has had to accept meals and clothing from the Salvation Army. Nina Zharikov is the only wage earner, bringing home 2,000 rubles a month as a subway cleaner. The family also gets an equal sum in government child support. But "every kopeck goes for food, and there's never enough," says the 37-year-old mother. "Even though I earned less before, we could still afford to live." The Ministry...
...Zharikov's husband, Vyacheslav, 56, whose respiratory illness forced him to take early retirement from his job as a sanitary engineer, cannot draw a pension until he is 60. He says the couple might even have expanded their brood if it weren't for the soaring inflation that has come with market reforms. "We didn't know our life would come to this, that the system would change," he says. The huge five-room flat, for which the family pays 162 rubles a month, is in desperate need of renovation. Nine rickety cots, a small table and a few chairs...
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